UChicago/Hyde Park = Dangerous?

PMCM18
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:38:04 +0000

Great post JHS, and I would just like to share a bit of my personal experience going to more “dangerous” parts of the South Side. I spent the last two quarters tutoring kids from a high school on the south west side, and while my experience was mostly limited to being inside the school (interacting with kids that were a lot more similar than different from me) and taking the public bus to and from UChicago, I never saw any suspicious activity or felt threatened. The worse that I saw was somebody steal an Ipad from the hands of a person who was seated near the doors of the bus and then run off, which provoked a furious reaction from the rest of passengers, so much so that some got off the bus to see if they could run after the person. Again, it’s not like you should walk down alleyways at 2 am and expect to be completely safe, but honestly that’s stuff you shouldn’t do in any city and your attacker could fit any profile.